from the great city of asheville, north carolina. hey, robert. >> caller: good morning, everyone. bill my question is once the court makes their ruling or the rulings, what does that mean? does that mean that marriage equality would be the law of the land across the whole united states? >> bill: that's a good question because as kerry mentions 30 some states have a constitutional provision against it. so kerry i'll ask you. what would that mean? those states -- >> so this is the big question, right. this is the number one question. you've got these two different cases. doma just strikes down section three of the defense of marriage act. if they struck it down, right. if they struck down that section, what that would mean is the federal government is no longer prohibited from recognizing legal marriages in states that do it. so if you strike that down, the nine states that perform legal marriages, the federal government would then be able to recognize the marriages performed in those states, right? >> bill: right. >> but the propositi